Victoria Valley

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949

Reference: PA5-0044

Description: The river, Victoria Valley, showing a dog standing on a raft. Photograph taken by A Northwood between 1910 and 1913. number on back 3489 1/2 [no neg] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 88 x 135 mm

Date: 1903-1939

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-62

Description: Includes articles, pictures and other material on Maori history, health, and religion as well as geography, language, science and volcanology Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1934-1937

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-66

Description: Includes clippings on Maori history, trans-Pacific migration, New Zealand and Pacific Island flora and fauna, moko, geography and poetry Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter (some with holograph annotations)

Date: ca 1924

Reference: PAColl-7325

Description: Copy negatives of photographs in an album. The Mimi valley deviation on the New Plymouth to Te Kuiti highway; the road alongside Porirua harbour showing submerged telegraph poles; men spreading and rolling gravel on the Gisborne to Wairoa highway at Morere; men laying concrete on the Christchurch to Timaru highway; number of horse-drawn carts on a riverbed being loaded with shingle; and horse-drawn scoops collecting shingle from a riverbed for the Hamilton to Rotorua highway. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003415 to 003420 Quantity: 6 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949

Reference: PA5-0047

Description: View of Victoria Valley showing dwellings and a cattle grid on road, taken by A Northwood between 1910 and 1913. number on back 3488 1/2 [no neg] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 88 x 138 mm

Date: [1940]

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-57

Description: Includes 2 copies of `Ancient Maori history - Recollections of a rambler' which details the journeys of the tupuna Kahungunu travelling around the East Coast; `The Movements of Kahungunu from Tauranga to Nukutaura'; a notice regarding a pension application; `Confessions of a journalist' by Pat Lawlor; `New Zealand's first war' by T Lindsay Buick; `The Story of the old Wairoa syndicate'; `Early history of Victoria Valley 1876-1939' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca 1916

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-006345-G

Description: Bullock teams hauling shingle at the Victoria Valley metal pit, Far North District. Photographed circa 1916 probably by Arthur James Northwood. Albums at PA1-o-394 to PA1-o-396. Negatives at 1/2-024646 to 024664, 029635 to 029641, 029830 to 029857; 1/1-004884 to 004967, 006210 to 006379, 006809 to 006823, 009741, 009776 to 009785. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Sheat, A J : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6996-01

Description: Government survey camp, and surveyors, Victoria Valley, Far North District, circa 1890s. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Another view of same Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.1 x 15 cm attached to paper backing

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-010871-G

Description: Victoria Valley landscape, overlooking a school house. Photograph taken by Arthur Northwood circa 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 15 Apr 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-45753

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative